Horror as knifeman, 22, goes on 20-minute bloody rampage in suburban Illinois ... trends now
Four people are dead, including a 15-year-old girl and a 49-year-old mailman, after a deranged knifeman went on a brutal rampage through a sleepy Illinois suburb on Wednesday afternoon.
A 22-year-old man is in custody in relation to the crime. He has not been identified nor has a motive been released publicly for the horrific attacks.
Police in Rockford, Illinois, 90 miles west of Chicago, responded to a series of locations at 1:14pm after receiving calls about a burglary. From there, a manhunt began resulting in the suspect being arrested in the vicinity at 1:35pm.
One victim, who survived, was stabbed in the face as she tried to escape the deranged attacker who was described as being 'very bloody' and resisting when he was hauled away.
The victims have so far only been identified as two women, ages 15 and 63, and two men, aged 49 and 22. Three of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, one died later at a local hospital.
Five other people were rushed to local hospitals to be treated for injuries, four were released as one person is still being treated in serious condition.
A 22-year-old man is in custody in relation to the crime. He has not been identified nor has a motive been released publicly for the horrific attacks in sleepy Rockford, Illinois
Not all of the victims found at multiple addresses in the city had stab wounds and none were shot
Police later identified those victims as a 15-year-old girl, a 63-year-old woman, a 49-year-old man and a 22-year-old man. Their names were not released
'We are reeling as a community from another senseless act of violence,' Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara told the media in the aftermath of the tragedy.
One local, Eric Patterson, told the Rockford Register Star that he saw two teenagers bloodied from an attack and a middle aged woman being taken away in an ambulance.
Patterson said that the mailman was run over by a pick up truck. Rockford Police Chief Carla Redd earlier confirmed that not all of the victims were stabbed but none were a shot
'We don’t have a clear motive in regard to what caused this individual to
